Ieva
Saudargaite Douaihi

Ieva Saudargaitė Douaihi is a transdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of photography, architecture, and material research. Rooted in an ongoing exploration of vernacular landscapes, memory, and overlooked ecologies, her practice spans image-making, spatial interventions, and hybrid objects composed of found objects, natural matter, and household materials. Drawing on her background in architecture and a deep sensitivity to ecological and social entanglements, she engages with overlooked spaces and slow processes of growth, decay, and adaptation.

Through layered relationships between nature, memory, and the built environment, Douaihi explores how spaces carry histories, absences, and the potential for renewal. Her work gives form to questions of permanence, access, and belonging—unfolding as quiet gestures that trace the ways in which people and places shape, resist, or intertwine with one another.

Douaihi studied architecture at the Lebanese American University in Byblos and École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris; she grew up between Lithuania, the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon.

She is the founder of the artist-led project space, Takeover in Beirut, Lebanon. In 2021, she received the ADPP Mentorship Award, the Boghossian Foundation Prize for photography. In 2019, her collaborative installation with architect and designer Roula Salamoun was awarded the 2019 Arte Laguna ARS Prize.

Her works have been exhibited internationally at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC, the Lebanese Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Mediterranea 18 in Tirana, Albania, and locally, in La Vitrine, Beit Beirut, Sursock Museum, and Beirut Art Center.